Statements Concerning Smith

Subjects
Box Number
13
Statements
Statement of Yamanaka
By
Fumitoshi Yamanaka
About
Samuel Shepard Smith

Statement of Yamanaka Only other name (other than Fredericks and Plambeck) that Yamanaka recalls: Lt. Smith, a marine pilot based on Okinawa, captured after crashing at Tanegashima, Kagoshima-ken in the first part of July, sent- to Tokyo. Doesn't recall any of the photographs.

Statement of Nakao
By
Jukiro Nakao
About
Samuel Shepard Smith

Statement of Nakao (10 Sept 1947) Nakao recalls talking to a Samuel Shepard Smith, a Lt. who crashed in Tangeashima (southern tip of Kyushu), held for 2 days at the 57th Army, heard he was sent to Tokyo.

Statement of Nakao
By
Jukiro Nakao
About
Samuel Shepard Smith

Statement of Nakao (24 Oct - 27 Oct 1947) Smith was the about the last flyer sent to Tokyo, several months before the Surrender.

Statement of Nakao
By
Jukiro Nakao
About
Samuel Shepard Smith

Statement of Nakao (28 Oct - 5 Nov 1947) After May 1st, Lt. Watkins and Samuel S. Smith were the only flyers sent to Tokyo that Nakao knows of definitely.